20 Years On, The Brattle Film Foundation Sticks To Its Creative Beginnings | The ARTery

“I feel like we’re all hovering in midair, waiting for everything to slam back again,” says Ned Hinkle, creative director of the Brattle Theatre. We’re chatting over Zoom as he sits in the cinema’s office, occasionally pausing to speak to workmen who are there helping prepare for the theater’s eventual, yet-to-be-scheduled reopening. It’s a strange way to spend an anniversary, as this month makes it 20 years since he and his partner Ivy Moylan took over the space and started the Brattle Film Foundation. Yet another celebration canceled due to COVID-19, the party has moved online for the time being, with a yearlong retrospective of favorites that premiered at the Brattle over the past two decades set to stream at the theatre’s virtual screening room, The Brattlite.